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Presumably it will be many months before malls and large commercial complexes can return, as our ridiculous Prime Minister says, to the "new normality".
So this would be the right time for small neighborhood businesses to take up positions and fill in the niche left by the big boys, taking advantage of digital technologies.
To think that these small businesses have to face a monster the size of Amazon, at least, is quite intimidating if we think about the transport infrastructure for delivery.
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Mayordomo Smart Point is a startup based in Barcelona (Spain) that could help in this matter, by installing smart lockers in offices and communities of households.
These lockers could be used not only for receiving online purchases from large companies, but also to solve delivery problems for small local businesses.
The proximity will allow small businesses to deliver goods sold online and even offer citizens regular services such as delivering or picking up clothes from the dry cleaner.
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The user communicates with the company through an AI-equipped application, which will select among its associates the most suitable for the client, based on their preferences, price and quality.
There is no doubt that this could facilitate the survival of the small businesses in our neighborhood that, where the big businesses already had them housed, now the whole issue of the bloody pandemic falls on them.
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